Gettelfinger: GM fails to address job security The UAW called a strike against General Motors today after UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said he was “shocked and disappointed” by GM’s positions at the bargaining table. An official at UAW Local 652 in Lansing, Mich., confirmed the walkout at 11:06 a.m. EDT. The UAW said it set the strike deadline over the “failure of GM to address job security and other mandatory issues of bargaining.” The strike against GM includes about 73,000 UAW-represented employees throughout the United States. It is the first stoppage against GM since 1998 when a 54-day strike at parts-making operations in Flint, Mich., shut GM production nationally costing the company more than $3 billion. … http://e.ccialerts.com/a/tBG99UqAG-rD9AqcpPBAQBTZArC/and22

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